Olympus Heights
Lily Poetry Review/Chapbook ISBN: 978-1-957-75529-8
In Olympus Heights, poets Kevin Carey and Colleen Michaels reimagine the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology as contemporary neighbors in a gated community.
You know them: overblown architecture, inflated egos, misplaced desire.
This is a funny, smart, wholly engaging collection that is so full of pitch-perfect satire and human drama, it deserves its own binge-worthy series.
—Carla Panciera, author of One of the Cimalores and No Day, No Dusk, No Love
With Olympus Heights, Kevin Carey and Colleen Michaels have done no less than reclaim for us the classical pantheon, restoring its relevance in a cock-eyed and satirical way… Using free verse, strict forms, adapted formats, and prose poems, Carey and Michaels, give us portraits of power without gravitas, all-too-human gods with no real humanity, a commedia that wryly tucks its incisive political and ethical insights in ribaldry and farce.
–Richard Hoffman, author of People Once Real
Carey and Michaels have crafted a comic, yet poignant and, dare I say, human portrait of the ancient pantheon….